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From: mat@emcard.UUCP (W Mat Waites)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Kermit 2.2 UppErCAsE PrOLblEM
Message-ID: <7711@emcard.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 90 14:01:46 GMT
References: <6683@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> <51015@microsoft.UUCP> <8629@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> <53522@microsoft.UUCP> <3313@trantor.harris-atd.com>
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In article <3313@trantor.harris-atd.com> bbadger@x102c.ess.harris.com (Badger BA 64810) writes:
>I got jyu.fi!c64/telecomm/kermit2p2a.sda and it garbles lowercase letters.  For example,
>if I type a line of lowercase x's, it comes out like this:
>XxxXXxXxXxxXxxXXXxXXXXXxXxXxX
>
>Bernard A. Badger Jr.	407/984-6385 |"Get a LIFE!" --- J.H. Conway

I had the same problem, tried another 64, and it worked fine.
Apparently the custom keyboard scanning routine in kermit is sensitive
to the timing of the keyboard interface chips. Also apparently, the
timing characteristics of these chips has varied over the production
life of the 64.

Maybe you could trade with someone who doesn't care about kermit.

Mat

ps. kermit is the only program that I've tried that had a problem with
my other 64.




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